I think you guys should all go into the fish business. Build an aquarium. A big one. At least six feet long and a couple of feet deep and thick. Minimum 125 gallons. And get yourselves some African Cichlids. Beautiful, durable little fish. And they breed like fundamentalists. Then get yourself a big fish. Something that's beautiful, like a Cobalt Blue. Feed them all and see what happens. Supply and Demand. The invisible hand of the market and all of that stuff. You can see it in action. Try out your theories. See what happens to the fact that everyone eats and everyone gets sick and as big as the tank is, it still has limited resources. Nature is tough and fish weren't meant to be even in big aquariums. If you are going to keep them there then you are going to have to modify certain ideas about yours and their freedom or they won't survive. I used to have a house full of aquariums and animals. I went with the natural model. Now I live in a two room apartment and except for the space, my life is much more productive and I can talk to my friends on the internet. You might consider that the upkeep of your lives has to do with the reason that you don't understand some of the more complex works of the modern artists. It just takes too much energy. In order to have civilization you must cooperate and that doesn't work with capitalism or popular economics. There has to be another model. But are we cognitively dissonant or can we break free and imagine another way? What the hell? What else do you have to do with your life that isn't ordinary, insignificant and totally temporary? Milton Friedman and his fried fish. That's all he can taste in his 90s but he still controls yours.
Ray Evans Harrell Original Message ----- From: "Ed Weick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Karen Watters Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Harry Pollard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 12:23 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] Local living economies > Harry, I don't think the UN stands a chance of doing anything that various > powers might view as infringing on their sovereign rights. > > Ed > > > > Ed, > > > > Such a program would be ideal for the UN if it was really a Global > > organization. > > > > But, unfortunately, it hasn't much more than Pomp and Circumstance. > > > > Harry > > ----------------------------------------------------- > > > > Ed wrote: > > > > > > The issue is who owns the seas. I think they belong to the people of > the > > > > earth, who should manage the catch to make the fishing grounds > > > > self-sustaining. Then there will be no "Tragedy". > > > > > >Harry, the problem is that, except for off-shore limits, the people of > the > > >earth do own the seas. But the interests of the people are so diverse > that > > >there is very little possibility of establishing an effective management > > >regime. > > > > > >Ed > > > > > > > > **************************************************** > > Harry Pollard > > Henry George School of Social Science of Los Angeles > > Box 655 Tujunga CA 91042 > > Tel: (818) 352-4141 -- Fax: (818) 353-2242 > > http://home.attbi.com/~haledward > > **************************************************** > > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > ---- > > > > > > --- > > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > > Version: 6.0.489 / Virus Database: 288 - Release Date: 6/10/2003 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework > _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
